{"id":91,"date":"2012-11-14T13:36:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T21:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanese-chef-knives.betterkitchenutensils.com\/the-early-history-of-steel\/"},"modified":"2012-11-14T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T21:36:25","slug":"the-early-history-of-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betterkitchenutensils.com\/japanese-chef-knives\/the-early-history-of-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Early History of Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This is an interesting article about the history of steel. I think we will follow up with a more in debth look at the history of steel as it is quite an interesting subject.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Steel is an alloy that is made by combining iron with a number of other elements, usually carbon. It is one of the most common metals in the world and can be found in a huge number of everyday objects. Steel is used in the manufacture of auto-mobiles, buildings and ships and is often used to make tools. Steel is strong and durable but can also withstand a certain amount of tension. It is also better than other metals at holding a sharp edge. Today 1.3 billion tons of steel is produced annually by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longulf.com\/trading\/coated_steel\/\">steel suppliers<\/a> and is usually made using a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blast_furnace\">blast furnace<\/a>. Many people think that steel is something of a fairly modern invention &#8211; a process that was only invented and refined in the past few centuries. This viewpoint, however, is only half right. The process of steel-making was improved upon in the last few centuries to make it easily mass producible. However, the invention of steel goes much farther back in history than you might expect.<\/p>\n<p> Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:High_Steel_Bridge_(5).JPG\">Dog Walking Girl<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/the-early-history-of-steel' target='_blank'>Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Source: <a href='http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/the-early-history-of-steel' target='_blank'>Squidoo<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting article about the history of steel. I think we will follow up with a more in debth look at the history of steel as it is quite an interesting subject. Steel is an alloy that is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betterkitchenutensils.com\/japanese-chef-knives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betterkitchenutensils.com\/japanese-chef-knives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betterkitchenutensils.com\/japanese-chef-knives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betterkitchenutensils.com\/japanese-chef-knives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betterkitchenutensils.com\/japanese-chef-knives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/betterkitchenutensils.com\/japanese-chef-knives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betterkitchenutensils.com\/japanese-chef-knives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betterkitchenutensils.com\/japanese-chef-knives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betterkitchenutensils.com\/japanese-chef-knives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}